With a single put up on social media Saturday, Cher upended the idea that when folks grow old, they flip into bitter, cranky conservatives. The singer and actor, who’s three weeks older than Republican candidate for president Donald Trump, proudly endorsed vice-president and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris for the nation’s high job, saying that Harris and her vice-presidential choose, Tim Walz “will struggle to guard our rights.”
Cher’s endorsement of Harris is not an enormous shock. In interviews with Vainness Honest spanning five decades, the star has endorsed Democratic candidates. “I do know I am not presupposed to have any opinions about politics, as a result of I am well-known,” she told Vanity Fair in 2010, saying then that she’d supported Hillary Clinton throughout her first run for president in 2008, telling interviewer Krista Smith then that she appreciated then-president Barack Obama, however could not shake the sensation Clinton would have carried out a greater job.
“I’d be prepared to pay much more taxes, as a result of I make much more cash, however I do not wish to give them extra to only fuck issues up extra,” she stated then. “It actually ought to fall on folks like me to get collectively and do issues to assist the folks on this nation. Should you’re not worrying about learn how to put meals in your desk, you [should be] worrying about why different folks haven’t got meals on their desk.”
Again then, it was George W. Bush who incited her ire, to the purpose that she’d call into C-SPAN to air her frustration with the administration. “I bought so obsessive about it that it was sort of interfering with my life,” she stated in 2010.
Within the 2020s, it is Trump and his enduring help throughout the U.S. that frustrates her. “I nearly bought an ulcer the final time,” he was president, she told the Guardian final yr. “If he will get in, who is aware of? This time I will depart [the country].”
Chief amongst Cher’s considerations are the attitudes Trump and his vice-presidential choose, JD Vance, have about transgender folks. “It’s one thing like 500 payments they’re attempting to cross,” to limit the rights of trans people, she says of the Republican social gathering. “I used to be with two trans ladies the opposite evening – and naturally my very own little one” (Chaz Bono, who’s trans). “I used to be saying ‘We’ve bought to face collectively.’ I don’t know what their eventual plan is for trans folks. I don’t put something previous them.”
Cher made her opposition to Trump, and her help for Harris and Walz, official on Saturday, with a video posted to TikTok, X (previously Twitter), and Instagram. Every bore the identical message: “I’ve adopted Kamala Harris since she was my US. senator. She fought for me then and she or he is preventing for all of us now. That’s why I’m proudly voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.”
“I do know they’ll struggle to guard our rights,” she continued, “and I’m so grateful to have the ability to make my voice rely this yr. I hope you’ll too.”
Cher’s endorsement for Harris follows these of a long and diverse list of different music enterprise legends together with James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, Patti LaBelle, and Stevie Nicks, in addition to newer acts together with Beyonce, Megan Thee Stallion, and Taylor Swift. On Saturday, Harris was joined on the marketing campaign path by two different pop stars: Lizzo and Usher, who appeared at rallies for the candidate in Detroit and Atlanta, respectively.
“That is the swing state of all swing states, so each final vote right here counts,” PBS quotes Lizzo as saying on the Michigan occasion. “Should you ask me if America is prepared for its first girl president, I solely have one factor to say: “It’s about rattling time!”
